Marne Maitland

Marne Maitland
James Marne Kumar Maitland (18 December 1914 – 24 August 1991) was an Anglo-Indian character actor in films and television programmes.
Biography
Maitland was born in Calcutta, and educated at Bedales School before going up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he took a BA in 1936. He served in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War, commissioned as a second lieutenant on 20 November 1941. He made his film debut in Cairo Road (1950). His sharp, dark features and small stature saw him typecast as villains from the Middle and Far East, particularly for Hammer Film Productions. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) was his one appearance in a James Bond film.
He made numerous television appearances in programmes such as The Buccaneers, Danger Man, The Avengers (as a sinister Eastern delegate in the 1967 episode "Death's Door"), The Saint, The Champions, Department S, and Randall and Hopkirk, and the Granada series The Jewel in the Crown (1984, as Pandit Baba, a scholar agitating for an end to British rule in India).
Filmography
Cairo Road (1950) .... Gohari
Outcast of the Islands (1951) .... Ships Mate
Deadly Nightshade (1953) .... Heinz
South of Algiers (1953) .... Thankyou
Saadia (1953) .... Horse dealer
Flame and the Flesh (1954) .... Filiberto
Father Brown (1954) .... Maharajah
Diplomatic Passport (1954) .... Phlip
Svengali (1954) .... 2nd Stage Manager
Break in the Circle (1955) .... The phony Kudnic
The Dark Avenger (1955) .... French Peasant (uncredited)
Ramsbottom Rides Again (1956) .... (uncredited)
Bhowani Junction (1956) .... Govindaswami
Hour of Decision (1956) ..... Club Waiter
Interpol (1957) .... Guido Martinelli
Seven Thunders (1957) .... Hassan (uncredited)
Windom's Way (1957) .... Commissioner Belhedron
The Mark of the Hawk (1957) .... Sandar Lai
The Camp on Blood Island (1958) .... Capt. Sakamura
The Wind Cannot Read (1958) .... Bahadur
Man with a Gun (1958) .... Max
I Was Monty's Double (1958) .... Arab Proprietor
I Only Arsked! (1958) .... King Fazim
Tiger Bay (1959) .... Dr. Das
Dial 999 (TV series) - ('An Inside Job', episode 33) -(1959) ....Kirk
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959) .... Archipolagos (uncredited)
I'm All Right Jack (1959) .... Mr. Mohammed
The Stranglers of Bombay (1959) .... Patel Shari
Cone of Silence (1960) .... MR. Robinson
Sands of the Desert (1960) .... Advisor to Sheikh
The Terror of the Tongs (1961) .... Beggar
Passport to China (1961) .... Han Po
Three on a Spree (1961) .... Eastern gentleman
Middle Course (1961) .... Renard
The Phantom of the Opera (1962) .... Xavier
Panic (1963) .... Lantern
Nine Hours to Rama (1963) .... Karnick
Master Spy (1963) .... Dr. Asafu
Sammy Going South (1963) .... Hassan
Cleopatra (1963) .... Ephranor
First Men in the Moon (1964) .... Dr. Tok,UN Space Agency (uncredited)
Lord Jim (1965) .... Elder
The Return of Mr. Moto (1965) .... Wasir Hussein, the Shahrdar's Assistant
The Reptile (1965) .... The Malay
Khartoum (1966) .... Sheikh Osman
The Bobo (1967) .... Luiz Castillo
Duffy (1968) .... Abdul
Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968) .... Junior Policeman
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) .... Cardinal Rahamani
Journey to Midnight (1968) .... Edward Chardur (episode 'The Indian Spirit Guide')
The Bushbaby (1969) .... The Hadj
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) .... Cardinal Campeggio
The Statue (1971) .... UNO Secretary General
Roma (1972) .... Guide in the Catacombs
Man of La Mancha (1972) .... Captain of the Guard
Shaft in Africa (1973) .... Col. Gonder
Massacre in Rome (1973) .... Pancrazio's secretary (uncredited)
Street Law (1974) .... Records (uncredited)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) .... Mr. Lazar
Down the Ancient Staircase (1975)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) .... Deputy Commissioner Lasorde (scenes deleted)
March or Die (1977) .... Leon
Ashanti (1979) .... Touraeg Chief
Lovers and Liars (1979)
The Black Stallion (1979) .... Drake Captain
Grog (1982)
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) .... Deputy Commissioner Lasorde
Pope John Paul II (1984) .... Mountain Sacristian
The Scarlet and the Black (1983).....Papal Secretary
Memed, My Hawk (1984) .... Suleyman
The Assisi Underground (1985) .... Rabbi
I Am an ESP (1985)
The Belly of an Architect (1987) .... Battistino
Appointment in Liverpool (1988) .... Pilar
Stradivari (1988) .... Doctor
And the Violins Stopped Playing (1988) .... Sandu Mirga, Dymitr's father
A Violent Life (1990) .... Blind cardinal
The King's Whore (1990) .... Count Trevie (final film role)
References
External links
Little Margaret Movie
Maitland tribute on YouTube
Marne Maitland at Theatricalia
1914 births
1991 deaths
British male stage actors
British male film actors
British male television actors
Male actors from Kolkata
Anglo-Indian people
Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
British Army personnel of World War II
20th-century British male actors
People educated at Bedales School
Royal Artillery officers